Shakey Byrne extends his contract with Paul Bird Kawasaki to ride in BSB for another year. Weirdly enough, it'll be the first time he's spent two consecutive seasons with the same team (yes, I had to look that up).

If you're good enough, you can win multiples races on the best bike as a rookie. Rossi, Pedrosa and Lorenzo showed it's possible. Pedrosa won't win them all, so Marquez will win multiple races next year.... Book it!!

Yep, the speed should be shown early. For instance, Stoner got pole on his second race weekend in MotoGP, and not on a factory bike. He got a second in his third race. I'm not sure though that not going really quick early on means you won't be one day, because there may be a reason why the bike is not right for some riders.

Shakey Byrne extends his contract with Paul Bird Kawasaki to ride in BSB for another year. Weirdly enough, it'll be the first time he's spent two consecutive seasons with the same team (yes, I had to look that up).

Who finance the PBM's CRT projeckt? They have sponsors in BSB, they had in WSB, but they have no sponsors in GP, and imho it's a bit expensive hobby to spend a lot of money for an absolute backmarker bike...

This hungarian article said the Giuliano Rovelli (ParkinGO) do negotiate with MV Agusta bosses to run a team in WSS. One of the rider would be Luca Scassa, but he wants a two rider team, and he also want a step-up to WSB from 2014.

The article also said thet Dorna boss Ezpelata heavily support this idea.

This hungarian article said the Giuliano Rovelli (ParkinGO) do negotiate with MV Agusta bosses to run a team in WSS. One of the rider would be Luca Scassa, but he wants a two rider team, and he also want a step-up to WSB from 2014.

The article also said thet Dorna boss Ezpelata heavily support this idea.

Ellison says that he was told he'd still be with the team and that if it wasn't on the CRT he'd definitely be on a PBM Kawasaki in BSB. He's had a difficult year where on top of the racing he's had to put up with Paul Bird constantly dropping hints about replacing him with Shane Byrne, once even live on the Eurosport BSB coverage. Now Bird seems to have ditched him entirely. That's pretty bad form in my book, regardless of the on-track performance.